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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Lady Gaga, Susan Boyle crowned Britain's 2009 best sellers (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 05:37 PM PST

Reuters - Lady Gaga's single "Poker Face" and Susan Boyle's debut album "I Dreamed A Dream" were crowned Britain's biggest-selling records of 2009, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.

British PM Brown named worst-dressed man (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 05:24 PM PST

File photo of Prime Minister Gordon Brown who has has received a pre-election kick in the pants, being named the worst-dressed man of the year by the British edition of GQ magazine.(AFP/File/Jean-Christophe Verhaegen)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has received a pre-election kick in the pants, being named the worst-dressed man of the year by the British edition of GQ magazine.

Underdog Brown ready for election fight (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 03:44 PM PST

Prime Minister Gordon Brown admitted Sunday he was the underdog in this year's general election but pledged he would AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown admitted Sunday he was the underdog in this year's general election but pledged he would "not stop fighting" to win the poll.

U.S., British embassies in Yemen close on Qaeda threat (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 11:30 AM PST

Reuters - The United States and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen on Sunday over security concerns about possible militant attacks after the failed bombing of a U.S.-bound plane on Christmas Day.

Britain to introduce body scanners at airports (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 09:37 AM PST

An airport staff member demonstrates a full body scan in progress at Manchester Airport in Manchester, in October 2009.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Airports are going to introduce body scanners in a bid to tighten up security following the failed US airliner plot, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday.

UK knew US airline suspect had extremist ties (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 09:33 AM PST

A yemeni Girl passes the Sana'a Institute for Arabic Language in San'a, Yemen Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspect in the Christmas Day airline attack, was an Arabic student at the institute in August. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - British intelligence officials knew that the Nigerian man suspected of trying to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner had ties to U.K. extremists but did not consider him enough of a high risk to alert American authorities, a senior British official said Sunday.

Britain, U.S. agree to fund Yemen police unit (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 08:33 AM PST

Reuters - The United States and Britain have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen as part of stepped-up efforts to fight terrorism, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said on Sunday.

Family urges inquest for Briton executed in China (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 08:09 AM PST

Akmal Shaikh (seen here in Poland in 2007), a 53-year-old father-of-three whom supporters say was mentally ill, was executed in China for drug smuggling despite extensive British pleas for clemency. Shaikh's family wrote to the government in London on Sunday demanding an inquest into his death, their lawyers said.(AFP/Reprieve/File/Luis Belmonte Diaz)AFP - The family of a Briton executed in China wrote Sunday to the government in London demanding an inquest into his death, their lawyers said.

Body of fifth UK hostage to be handed over: Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 07:34 AM PST

An image grab from a video broadcast in 2008 by Al-Arabiya news network shows Briton Peter Moore who was kidnapped in 2007 along with his four bodyguards. The body of one of the bodyguards is expected to be handed over in the coming days, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told AFP on Sunday.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - The body of the sole remaining Briton of five kidnapped in Baghdad in May 2007 by Shiite militants will be handed over in the coming days, Iraq said on Sunday.

Full-body scanners to be put in British airports (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 06:03 AM PST

AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown says full-body scanners will be introduced in Britain's airports in the wake of the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a U.S. airliner.

Body of fifth UK hostage to be handed over soon: Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 05:27 AM PST

An image grab from a video broadcast in 2008 by Al-Arabiya news network shows Briton Peter Moore who was kidnapped in 2007 along with his four bodyguards. The body of one of the bodyguards is expected to be handed over in the coming days, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told AFP on Sunday.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - The body of the fifth Briton kidnapped in Baghdad in 2007 is expected to be handed over in the coming days, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told AFP on Sunday.

UK embassy in Yemen closed for security reasons (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 04:51 AM PST

Reuters - The British Embassy in Yemen has closed for security reasons, the Foreign Office said on Sunday, after the United States closed its embassy there in response to threats by al Qaeda.

Bomb suspect "reached out" to UK militants: report (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:04 PM PST

Reuters - British security services knew three years ago that the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane had "multiple communications" with Islamic extremists in Britain, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, charged with trying to blow up Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day, studied in London between 2005 and 2008.

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